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STOP ENFOPOL

No Surveillance Union in Europe!

In a surprise coup the ENFOPOL law proposals have 
passed the European Parliament on May 7th, when just 
a quarter of the delegates were present.

Three quarters of all EU parliamentarians have never 
seen this law for a european surveillance system [e-
mail, GSM, WWW], that means severe intrusion into the 
privacy of all European citizens.

Only the Council of Ministers meeting [ May 27th] can 
stop this unfortunate law.

These ministers must be reminded of their 
responsibilities towards the citizens they represent!

These surveillance plans must be discussed publicly!


We demand the European Ministers Council to

- defer the Enfopol plans, and

- make the law including technical details public


STOP ENFOPOL Campaign Page
http://www.quintessenz.at

ENFOPOL Information PAGE
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/defau
lt.html



What is ENFOPOL?

Enfopol is a resolution for the Councils of Justice 
and Interior of the European Union. It shall extend 
the resolution of the Council from January 17 1995 on 
new technologies, such as satellite communication and 
the Internet.

Law enforcement agencies shall have access to the 
entire telecommunications, the traffic and associated 
data of suspect persons in real time. Moreover 
network operators shall not only provide appropriate 
interfaces but have to enable interception in the 
shortest possible time.

Discussion is avoided by shifting the demands onto 
the level of the European Union: 

Yet Enfopol increases the necessity of a public 
discussion:

- The law excludes the question of the costs for such 
measures. Yet the discussion in Germany about a 
similar surveillance law  TKÜV last year already 
showed that they can neither be financed by service 
providers nor the state.

- The consequences such an interception machinery 
would have for the privacy of citizens and data 
protection are disregarded as well. Without doubt new 
technologies pose new challenges for investigations 
of the police. Answering this with an excessive 
expansion of the competences of the police disregards 
the proportion of means.